This is what I really should have called this post. I know, have known that I shouldn't get an empeg, I didn't want to listen to the truth cause I think they are so damn cool.

Speaking as somebody who owns all 650+ CDs he's ripped, I find that comment quite objectionable. Quite frankly, if I were anywhere near you I'd shove your MP3 playing laptop where the sun doesn't shine.

First of all, I consider myself someone who care about anti-piracy more than most. If there is software that I like, I pay for it. I am more than happy to pay something I get good use out of and don't wish to steal from anyone. However, I have a very varied taste in music. If I like a song I don't want to have to go out and buy the whole cd when all I want is the 1 song. If there were some way I could pay for my mp3's I would (similar to the way eMusic works but with music that I've actually heard of). And to take an example of something that happened just recently, I realized I had several songs from a particular cd, so I went out and bought it despite that I already had the songs that I listened to off that cd. I just felt I needed to set the record straight on that one.